Steven Temple

Background

About Steven Temple

I am fascinated with the learning process and how humans organize their conceptual understanding of the world, specifically the physical world. I am currently interested in how I can help students create cohesive models for describing physical phenomena. I have become increasingly interested in how computer simulations (and more importantly authoring those simulations through computer code) can help students connect abstract rules of behavior to actual experienced observations. Besides my work in science and technology education, I enjoy working in the humanities as a way to explore certain social and moral issues that students are beginning to explore as they reach the end of their high school careers. In practice, I employ project based learning in my classroom because I feel that it gives the students the best opportunity to learn essential skills in time management, team collaboration, and authentic problem solving. The combination of these two parallel modes of human experience has made my job incredibly rich and exciting. I look forward to what comes next.